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Society with a Museum. Judging rightly that any one of 
these could not stand alone in such a small colony, he 
probably thought each would help to assist the other, and 
that this has been the result the experience of nearly fifty 
years and the position of the Society to-day go to prove. 
The Agricultural Society would no doubt have fallen to 
the ground long ago had it not been for the Library and 
Reading Room, while thecommercial section has been even 
less stable. Perhaps the only fault was its name, which 
is rather too long and not comprehensive enough, leaving 
out of account the fa6l that it is intended to be literary 
and scientific as well as agricultural and commercial. 
Referring to the Prospects of the new Society, the 
Gazette of February 15th 1844, said the object of the 
proposers of the Association was mainly to bring persons 
together to promote enquiry on matters connected with 
our local industries. But beyond this it was suggested 
that a Library, a Museum, an Official and Commercial 
Room, a Gallery of Models, and many of the advantages 
of a private club should be attainable. The editor cor- 
dially concurred in these recommendations, because the 
Society promised to become the nucleus for dissemin- 
ating a general public taste for intellectual and scientific 
pursuits. The Society had been set on foot by several 
influential gentlemen, and no doubt would flourish, not 
perhaps so much for the sake of its main objects as the 
allurement of its subsidiary enjoyments. But it was of 
little consequence from what motive the impulse to 
enlarged and scientific pursuits was given, so long as its 
steady acceleration was likely to result. 
The Prospectus was sent to the then Governor, HENRY 
Light, Esq., by the Hon. William Arrindell, who 
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